Culture Quotes

We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'.

By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you.

One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture; that is why suburban children want rap music.

The FBI. is a massive culture. It's been a culture that served America well, and it's been focused on prosecution. But what we need in terms of terrorism is prevention.

I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.

Art is not an anaemic cult but a dynamic culture.

If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?

Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of Washington ingrained into the culture of Congress.

Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees.

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture.

There's nothing in my head that's worth anything at all because it's the culture that put it there.

For many of our shareholders, our stock is all they own, and we're acutely aware of that. Our culture [of conservatism] runs pretty deep.

It's been important to cultures throughout history with the court jester and the witch doctor and the shaman - all preach the same thing.

You can't have a discussion about bullying unless you also have a discussion against our culture's obsession with masculinity.

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.

You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it

Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was to work hard, save hard and to look after your family.

The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.

Rock'n'roll to me is a rebellion against the sterile pedestal culture of movies.

In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.

I appear topless as a way of holding on to my Nilotic culture, and I also do it to taunt those Africans who are ashamed of our original cultural beliefs.

A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice is much harder to hide.

We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.

In Asia, red is the colour of joy; red is the colour of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese culture, blue is the colour of mourning.

I love what I do because I get to talk to the people who change the game: the influencers, visionaries who make things happen in music and culture. That's inspiring to me.

Innovation is an ongoing process that you build into your culture.

The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture.

With what's happened in the world the last three years, it's easier to see why it's become popular again to diminish and revile Arabs and Muslims in American popular culture.

Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

I'll miss the comments from the people on the street who love the show and who have felt its impact on the culture. I won't miss the shooting schedule, though!

We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.

The only way to end a culture of violence is to proactively create a culture of peace.

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.

I mean you look back at American history and American culture, it's pretty striking. I mean this has been the safest country in the world forever, and the most frightened country in the world.

A competitive culture endures by tearing people down.

The capitalist culture of consumption... does not provide meaningful sustenance for large numbers of people.

If we don't take care of our customers, someone else will.

Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit.

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.

If you make a movie of the present day culture, in the future it'll be a horror film.

What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself.

In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very serious educational problem there.

People's wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress.

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.